The asymmetrical anthropocene: resilience and the limits of posthumanism

In this article we critique resilience’s oft-celebrated overcoming of modern liberal frameworks. We bring work on resilience in geography and cognate fields into conversation with explorations the ‘asymmetrical Anthropocene’, an emerging body thought which emphasizes human-nonhuman relational asymmetry. Despite their resonances, there has been little engagement between these two responses to human/world binary. This is important for changing terms policy debate: engaging through asymmetrical Anthropocene framing shines a different light upon discourses adaptive management, locating as continuation modernity’s anthropocentric will-to-govern. From vantage point, problematic, neglecting powers nonhuman worlds that are not accessible or appropriable governmental use. However, necessarily grounds pessimism. To conclude, argue human political agency even more vital indeterminate world.